These sample scans are from the original record. You will get scans of the full pages or articles where the surname you searched for has been found.

Your web browser may prevent the sample windows from opening; in this case please change your browser settings to allow pop-up windows from this site.

Clergy, the religious and the faithful in Britain and Ireland
(1471-1484)These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Lateran and Vatican Regesta of pope Sixtus IV. Many of these entries relate to clerical appointments and disputes, but there are also indults to devout laymen and women for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This source is particularly valuable for Ireland, for which many of the key government records of this period are lost. Many of the names in the text were clearly a puzzle to the scribes in Rome, and spelling of British and Irish placenames and surnames is chaotic. Sixtus IV was consecrated and crowned 25 August 1471 (the day from which his pontificate is dated) and died at Rome 12 August 1484. The extracts were made by J. A. Twemlow from Vatican Regesta dxlvi to dclxxxi and Lateran Regesta dccxiii to dcccxxxviii, and published in 1955. Not all the Lateran registers survive from this pontificate, but were still in existence in the 18th century, when indexes were compiled giving rubricelle, or brief summaries of the papal bulls; nor, indeed, have all these indexes now survived, but Twemlow added an appendix listing all the rubricelle relating to the British Isles extant for the reign of Sixtus IV.

COPPINGER. Cost: £4.00.

Sample scan, click to enlarge

Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1554-1556)The Privy Council of queen Mary was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters.

COPPINGER. Cost: £4.00.

Sample scan, click to enlarge

Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1577-1578)The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters

COPPINGER. Cost: £4.00.

Sample scan, click to enlarge

Official Papers
(1547-1580)The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to England, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records.

COPPINGER. Cost: £4.00.

Sample scan, click to enlarge

Ambassadors, ministers, soldiers and spies
(1586-1588)The State Papers Foreign of queen Elizabeth consist mainly of letters and reports concerning England's relations with continental Europe. June 1586 to June 1588.

COPPINGER. Cost: £6.00.

Sample scan, click to enlarge

Liegemen and Traitors, Pirates and Spies
(1591)The Privy Council of queen Elizabeth was responsible for internal security in England and Wales, and dealt with all manner of special and urgent matters